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Pablo PicassoTo me there is no past or future in art. If a work of
art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art
of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other
times, is not an art of the past, perhaps it is more alive today than it ever
was.
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Henry MooreTo be an artist is to believe in life.
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Salvador DaliThe desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
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Auguste RodinThe artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
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Leonardo Da VinciWhere the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
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MICHELANGELO BONARROTTIThe true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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Eugene IonescoA work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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Ugo FoscoloArt does not consist in representing new things, but in representing them with innovation.
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George Bernard ShawWithout art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.